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This man was short and stout, with a harelip and cleft palate, which at once gave him the well-known slurring speech of persons so afflicted, and imparted also to the timbre of his voice a peculiarly hollow, resonant, trumpet-like note. He stumped about energetically on a wooden leg of home manufacture.
Katy John said to her one day, in the soft, slurring accent that colored her English. "You wasn't cut out for a cook." "This isn't work," Stella retorted irritably. "It's simple drudgery. I don't wonder that men cooks take to drink." Katy laughed. "Why don't you be nice to Mr. Abbey," she suggested archly. "He'd like to give you a better job than thees for life.
Come on up to your room, dear. It looks bare. If I'd known you were coming the slip covers " "Are they in the box in the attic labeled 'Slp Cov Pinky Rum'?" She succeeded in slurring it ludicrously. It brought an appreciative giggle from Mrs. Brewster. A giggle need not be inconsistent with fifty years, especially if one's nose wrinkles up delightfully in the act.
Pellew took the responsibility on himself of saying with deep-seated intuition: "I know precisely what you mean. You're perfectly right. Perfectly!" "A hundred little things," said the lady. The dragging in of ninety-nine of these, with the transparent object of slurring over the hundredth, which each knew the other was thinking of, merely added to its vividness.
Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyard yes! but a company forges the wine. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet.
She and her brother, Lord Francis, have always been friends and companions: and on her table were bits of paper on which he had scribbled droll heads, and verses of his, very good, on the "Expulsion of the Moors from Spain" Lady Elizabeth knew every line of these, and had all that quick feeling, and colouring apprehension, and slurring dexterity, which those who read out what is written by a dear friend so well understand.
It consists simply in SLURRING over certain final syllables not eliding them or contracting them with the syllables following upon them, but passing over them lightly, so that, without being inaudible, they may at the same time not interfere with the rhythm or beat of the verse.
"I I said she goaded me into saying it, Jed slighting and slurring jeering at me because you were going away. I just got mad, Jed and I told her you weren't going that you and I that we were to be married." "Mattie, did you mean that?" he cried. "If you did, I'm the happiest man alive. I didn't dare persoom I didn't s'pose you thought anything of me.
The slurring words brought a hot blush of shame to Ebenezer's face. "I'm sorry, Fred," he stammered at length. "I was so angry I must've forgotten you're not well. I'm glad I didn't strike you. But what are we going to do, now?... If we don't tell Madelene, how about the Skinner girl?... Won't she make trouble for us?" "No, she won't say anything, I'm sure!"
The tones were as different from the high keyed, slurring speech of the backwoods, as the gentleman himself was unlike any man Jed had ever met. The boy looked at the speaker in wide-eyed wonder; he had a queer feeling that he was in the presence of a superior being.
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